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Choiseul and Shortland
The German New Guinea Company established control over Bougainville and Buka, Choiseul, Shortland and Treasury Islands in 1885 but did not extend its farther control southwards in the Solomons, whose southern islands came under a British protectorate in 1893 with the eastern islands being added in 1899.

Choiseul and Islands
* Rob Roy Island, an island in the Solomon Islands, part of Choiseul province
* Choiseul Bay, a bay of Choiseul Island, in the Solomon Islands
* Choiseul Island, an island in the Solomon Islands, named after Étienne François de Choiseul
* Choiseul Province, a province of the Solomon Islands, including Choiseul Island
* Choiseul Sound, Falkland Islands
The common subspecies ( C. z. zebrata ) is found on the islands of Choiseul Island, New Georgia, Isabel, Guadalcanal, Ngela, Malaita, Makira ( Solomon Islands ), Ugi and Santa Ana.
Choiseul at once embroiled Rochford in a scheme to trade off Britain ’ s claim to the Manila Ransom for relinquishment of the Falkland Islands, but the misreporting of a previous ambassador, Lord Hertford, and the inexperience of the secretary of state, Lord Shelburne, wrecked this transaction.
The Sound is bounded by Choiseul Island, Santa Isabel Island, and Florida Island to the north, and by Vella Lavella, Kolombangara, New Georgia, and the Russell Islands to the south.
* The Gilbertese tribal community at Wagina in Choiseul province ( Solomon Islands ) reintroduced by referendum in 2005 traditional " whipping " with coconut tree branches for various offences-the national justice system opposes this.
From October 20 through November 27, 1943 the squadron was based out of Barakoma and supported operations in the Treasury Islands, Choiseul and Bougainville.
This species is confined to the central part of the Solomon Islands and can be found specifically on the islands of Choiseul, Isabel and Guadalcanal where it forages in small family groups through the trees, feeding on various insects and fruits.
The others are the inhabitants of Nui ( Tuvalu ), Rabi Island ( Fiji ), Mili ( Marshall Islands ) and some other islands where I-Kiribati have been relocated ( Solomon Islands, notably Choiseul Province, and Vanuatu ) or emigrated ( to New Zealand and Hawaii mainly ).
Darwin is a settlement in Lafonia on East Falkland, Falkland Islands, lying on Choiseul Sound, on the east side of the island's central isthmus, north of Goose Green.
In the United Kingdom protectorate, there were initially 12 administrative districts: Choiseul, Eastern Solomons, Gizo, Guadalcanal, Lord Howe, Malaita, Nggela and Savo, Rennell and Bellona Islands, Santa Cruz, Shortlands, Sikaiana ( Stewart ), and Ysabel and Cape Marsh.
* Taro Island, community in the Solomon Islands, capital of Choiseul Province

Choiseul and New
Ever since the Seven Years ' War, France's foreign ministers, beginning with Choiseul, had followed the general idea that the independence of Britain's North American colonies would be good for France and bad for Britain, and furthermore that French attempts to recover parts of New France would be detrimental to that cause.
Bougainville's name is given to the largest eastern island of Papua New Guinea ; and to the strait which divides it from the island of Choiseul.

Choiseul and Santa
es: Choiseul ( distrito de Santa Lucía )

Choiseul and Malaita
After building a small brigantine, the surrounding islands of Malaita, Guadalcanal, Makira ( which was named San Cristobal ) and Choiseul Island were explored.

Choiseul and Guadalcanal
Allied reconnaissance aircraft sighted Jojima's supply convoy from Guadalcanal between Kolombangara and Choiseul in the Slot at 14: 45 on the same day, and reported it as two " cruisers " and six destroyers.

Choiseul and ),
* Caesar, duc de Choiseul ( 1602 – 1675 ), French marshal and diplomatist
In 1768, he was recalled, ostensibly because he married the widow Anne Duvivier, ( 1730 – 1798 ), but more probably because the Duc de Choiseul thought him not competent to provoke a war between Imperial Russia and the Ottomans which Choiseul hoped for.
** Caesar, duc de Choiseul ( 1602-1675 ), French marshal and diplomat, generally known for the best part of his life as marshal du Plessis-Praslin
** Claude de Choiseul ( 1632-1711 ), marshal of France in 1693
** César Gabriel de Choiseul ( 1712-1785 ), duc de Praslin, French officer, diplomat and statesman
** Étienne François, duc de Choiseul ( 1719-1785 ), French officer, diplomat and statesman
The Rhineland theatre in 1697 was again quiet: the French commander, Marshal Choiseul ( who had replaced the sick de Lorge the previous year ), was content to remain behind his fortified lines.
The duc de Choiseul and de Bouillé both wrote memoirs ( de Bouillé in 1800, the year of his death ), seeking to defend their actions during the flight, and to assign blame to others.
* Jean de Baudricourt, Lord of Choiseul and Bailiff of Chaumont ( died 1499 ), Marshal of France in 1486
* César, Duke of Choiseul ( 1598 – 1675 ), Marshal of France in 1645
* Claude de Choiseul, Marquis of Francières ( 1632 – 1711 ), Marshal of France in 1693
* Jacques de Choiseul-Stainville, Count of Choiseul ( 1727 – 1789 ), Marshal of France since 13. 6. 1783
Carmontelle added a Chinese pavilion to his garden at Parc Monceau in Paris ( 1772 ), and the Duc de Choiseul built a pagoda on his estate at Chanteloup between 1775-1778.
Born in Paris ( his father was a former secretary of Étienne François, duc de Choiseul ), and considered in retrospect the most important member of the Bertin family, he began his journalistic career by writing for the Journal Français and other papers during the French Revolution.

Choiseul and Rennell
In 1995, Choiseul was split off from Western province, and Rennell and Bellona was split off from Central province, making the nine provinces of today.

Choiseul and .
France sought revenge for this defeat, and under Choiseul France started to rebuild.
King Louis XV of France's ( 1715 – 74 ) minister, the duc de Choiseul, had former experience of Rome as French ambassador, and was Europe's most skilled diplomat.
In France a new leader, the Duc de Choiseul, had recently come to power and 1759 offered a duel between their rival strategies.
Choiseul hoped to repel the attacks in the colonies while seeking total victory in Europe.
Choiseul had pinned much of his hopes on a French invasion of Britain, which he hoped would knock Britain out of the war and make it surrender the colonies it had taken from France.
However the French naval defeats at Lagos and Quiberon Bay forced Choiseul to abandon the invasion plans.
** Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat ( d. 1675 )
** Etienne Francois, Duke of Choiseul, French statesman ( b. 1719 )
* June 28 – Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, French statesman ( d. 1785 )
* December 23 – Caesar, duc de Choiseul, French marshal and diplomat ( b. 1602 )
In the aftermath of generally poor French results in most theaters of the Seven Years ' War in 1758, France's new foreign minister, the duc de Choiseul, decided to focus on an invasion of Britain, to draw British resources away from North America and the European mainland.
In fact, she had been instrumental ousting from power the duc de Choiseul, who had helped orchestrate the Franco-Austrian alliance as well as Marie Antoinette's own marriage.
Louis, who had been influenced as a child by anti-Austrian sentiments in the court, blocked many of her candidates, including Choiseul, from taking important positions, aided and abetted by his two most important ministers, Chief Minister Maurepas and Foreign Minister Vergennes.
The Triumvirate arose in 1771, when Louis XV banished Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1758, and reshuffled the cabinet.
After the assassination attempt, and at the marquise de Pompadour's instigation, the king dismissed two ministers: the comte d ' Argenson, secretary of state for war, and Machault d ' Arnouville, keeper of the seals ( justice minister ) and before that controller-general of finances ; and he called Choiseul to the government.
Choiseul was the leading advocate of this scheme, and was prepared to go to war with Britain over the Falklands Crisis in 1770.
Louis, however, did not believe France was ready and instead dismissed Choiseul.
In 1759, at the height of the Seven Years War, Charles was summoned to a meeting in Paris with the French foreign minister, the Duc De Choiseul.
Choiseul was planning a full-scale invasion of England, involving upwards of 100, 000 men — to which he hoped to add a number of Jacobites led by Charles.
He cast about for a suitable venue and found the Théâtre des Jeunes Élèves, known also as the Salle Choiseul or the Salle Comte, in central Paris.
The company returned to the Salle Lacaze for the 1856, 1857, and 1859 summer seasons, performing at the Salle Choiseul in the winter.
They were all for the small casts permitted under his licence, although at the Salle Choiseul he was granted an increase from three to four singers.
To boost the company's finances, a London season was organised in 1857, with half the company remaining in Paris to play at the Salle Choiseul and the other half performing at the St James's Theatre in the West End of London.
Louis XV made a gift of it to his minister the duc de Choiseul.

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